Dylan movie leads Spirit contenders

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The whimsical Bob Dylan narrative I'm Not There -- with Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere and others playing incarnations of the enigmatic singer -- leads nominees for the Spirit Awards.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The whimsical Bob Dylan narrative I'm Not There -- with Cate Blanchett, Richard Gere and others playing incarnations of the enigmatic singer -- leads nominees for the Spirit Awards.

The awards, honoring independent films, will be presented Feb. 23, the day before the Academy Awards ceremony.

I'm Not There was nominated for best feature; supporting actress for Blanchett, supporting actor for child performer Marcus Carl Franklin and director for Todd Haynes.

Also nominated for best film were two others about real people: A Mighty Heart, in which Angelina Jolie plays the wife of slain reporter Daniel Pearl; and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, chronicling the life of French Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby after a stroke.

The other best-film nominees: Juno, featuring Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman and Ellen Page in a comic drama about a pregnant teen planning to put her baby up for adoption; and Paranoid Park, director Gus Van Sant's drama about a young skateboarder tormented by having caused a security guard's death.

Jolie as Mariane Pearl in A Mighty Heart and Page as the pregnant teen in Juno received lead-actress nominations, along with Sienna Miller for Interview, Parker Posey for Broken English and Tang Wei for Lust, Caution.

Lead-actor contenders are Pedro Castaneda for August Evening, Don Cheadle for Talk to Me, Philip Seymour Hoffman for The Savages, Frank Langella for Starting Out in the Evening and Tony Leung Chiu Wai for Lust, Caution.

Joining Haynes in the best-director field are Van Sant for Paranoid Park, Tamara Jenkins for The Savages, Jason Reitman for Juno and Julian Schnabel for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Adrienne Shelly, director and co-star of the indie hit Waitress who was found slain in her apartment last year, received a nomination for best screenplay.

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